Chiefs players weren’t expecting their arrival to the first day of OTAs in Kansas City on Tuesday to be filmed and shared on the team’s social media, were they? Kicker Harrison Butker, who wears custom suits on game days, apologized as he walked in, insisting to the camera person that he was “not dressed my best” in shorts, a long-sleeved shirt and dad sneakers. His teammates, though, were equally comfy, some wearing slippers on a damp, gray day while offering up decaffeinated greetings of, “Morning.” Tight end Travis Kelce, who has been training in Florida, sauntered in wearing shorts and a tie-dye T-shirt that — came from a Jimmy Buffett kiosk in Key West? So in this casual, offseason fashion parade, the leader stood alone. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes arrived in luxury street wear, a $4,600 Dior calfskin leather backpack slung over one shoulder. No smile. Pursed lips. All. Business. The fit did all the talking, right down to his shoes, which read: Fear of God. The three-time Super Bowl champ wore a goalie jersey with ‘80s-inspired stripes on the sleeves ($400) and coordinating suede fleece pants with an Adidas logo on the leg ($280) from the Fear of God label. His shoes were Fear of God basketball lace-up sneakers created in partnership with Adidas. (Mahomes has a signature shoe line with Adidas.)
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Fear of God founder Jerry Lorenzo, the son of former MLB player and manager Jerry Manuel, has turned street wear into high fashion worn by a long list of A-listers, from Selena Gomez and Gigi Hadid to Rihanna and Jay-Z. Last year Kelce wore the label’s boxy, oversized California blazer with matching tapered pants to the White House for the team’s Super Bowl celebration. At the Met Gala last month, former Mahomes teammate/now Ravens receiver DeAndre Hopkins (he looked better in red), Spike Lee and several others on that famous red carpet wore bespoke Fear of God.
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It was a big moment for the brand, which GQ featured in April as it detailed the new “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” exhibition at The Met. Fear of God is all about quiet luxury and the name purposefully gives nod to Lorenzo’s Christian faith — something he shares with Mahomes.
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“The intention is so that the world knows I’m putting every part of me into this, and a big part of me is my spirituality,” the Black fashion designer told Interview magazine a while back. “I’m not one to push that on anyone, but I’m also not shying away from who I am as an individual. Naming it Fear of God just gave me the necessary gas and purpose to design because it’s about a reverence for a higher being. “I love the name, because you can look at it in two different ways. It could be a fear of God if you’re not in relationship with God, or it could be a reverence for God if you’re in relationship with him. “I think the way that the individual interprets it says more about the individual than it does about the brand ... “Growing up in church, anything Christian on a T-shirt was always corny and never landed. The name Fear of God just felt like it had that coolness to it. “Obviously God is beyond the question of cool/not cool, but it was cool enough that it gave me something that I could put on our brand. And because I’m not the number one fashion dude, It gives me the gas to continue to push this thing, because I know there’s a bigger message behind it.” Now, it is waaaay too early in the offseason to be looking for clues or messages or Easter eggs in anyone’s fit. That’s more the wheelhouse, anyway, of Taylor Swift fans. (Oh, we know you well, by now.) But Mahomes is typically intentional with his style, so Tuesday’s look was unlikely a grab-what’s-there-on-the-chair situation, like center Creed Humphrey arriving in his omnipresent Crocs. (Gosh we love that look for the Oklahoma native.) So we’ll just leave it up to any of Mahomes’ future opponents to decide where their fears lie.
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